Tallula, IL: Preserved/GM&O Depot

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Street View, Jun 2023

Ross Brocksmith posted three images with the comment:

GM&O RR Station

Tallula

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Gulfport, Mobile & Ohio Railroad

Illinois has a Tallula, huh?  News to me.  Kinda between Springfield and Beardstown.

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Image Source/Credit: 

Ernest Grassel Collection

Only seen in-person in the Local History Collection

Downtown Branch of Peoria Public Library

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From Grassel’s volume titled  SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS

Bruce Liebe: The depot still stands and is well maintained.

Richard Fiedler shared with the comment: "Gulf Mobile & Ohio depot Tululla IL."

Robert Sullivan: Talulla was on the Jack Line between Bloomington and Jacksonville, closer to Jacksonville

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Ben Fehr posted

GM&O Jack Line Depot in Tallula, IL - present and past.  It appears to have been converted into some kind of civic building.  It's aways great to see a former depot building like this in such good shape and still serving a function.

Photo credit:

Modern - my photo Feb 22nd, 2026

Historic photo [see Photo 1 above] - Ross Brocksmith photo of an Ernest Grassel photo from a Peoria Public Library collection

Stan L. Maddox: It was also a bank for some time.

Larry Candilas commented on Ben's post
MP 68.3 Jack Line - a few years earlier in 1893

When the depots still exist, one doesn't need an old aerial photo. But the changes are still interesting.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

This is another example of a grain elevator in Illinois growing big even though it lost is railroad.

Street View, Jun 2023

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